Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-03-29

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Mr.. D. B. Jackson, an attache OF
the Pacific Coast Steamship Com
pany, lately returned to San Francis
60 from = visit to the southern coun-
ties. He Of course procured himself
10 be interviewed by the ubiquitous
press Of the Golden Gate, and we re-
gret to see that he has permitted
himself to fall into the groove which
70 many San Franciscans seem to
regard as becoming to themselves.
He has some very pleasant things 20
say about San Luis Obispo county,
TO which We would offer no sort of OBJ
lection. In fact, We believe that San
Luis Obispo is specially favored, and
that its ample acreage will be the
theater Of many magical develop
nents. But it is possible to praise
eur charming ne;ghbor on the north
without indulging in downright mis-
representation Of Los Angeles county.
Mr. Jackson may have been impelled
10 this course by the circumstance
that the company which employs
him has large landed and railway in
terests in San Luis Obispo. If he
thinks that untrue and unfair reports
circulated by him about Los Angeles
and her sister southern counties will
do his company any good, he is
vastly wide of the mark.
This gentleman belongs to
= class very numerous In the
central and northern counties,
and nowhere more numerous
than in San Francisco. Their course
is in the highest degree illogical and
absurd. The presence in our midst
of a mild form of the smallpox en-
abled them to develop their malice
in . very offensive form. In the
streets and in the hotels of San Fran
cisco it was represented that the
disease had assumed an alarming
magnitude here, and that our streets
and hotels were deserted. The actual
facts we're exaggerated tenfold and
in many cases a hundredfold. At
least some members of the State
Board Of Health lent themselves to
the scheme of isolating Los Angeles,
and the lying announcement that a
quarantine was about to be pro-
claimed unquestionably led many
strangers who had come to spend the
Winter and. Spring months in our
m:dst to take hasty departure.
That we suffered some trifling tenn
porary injury from this policy cannot
be doubted, but even more temporary
will be the benefit that will accrue
to those who have stopped to adopt
such shortsighted tactics. On the
part Of San francisco it is insensate
in the highest degree. All through
ont the East cities may be found
- large as San Francisco, and
many of them of a far more
interesting character. The multi
tudes who have sought Los Angeles
and San Diego by the Southern
routes have come 20 this coast not to
subject themselves to the hafsh winds
and blizzards of San Francisco, but
in search of an equable and balmy
climate, and to take sniff at the fra
GRANGE Of our orange groves. Having
come here, it is natural, as the season
advanced, that they should seek to
return home by the northern routes,
thus assuring to San Francisco and
other northern points visit from
them, with the consequent disburse
ment Of much coin.
OF one thing We may be sure, how
ever, and that is that if the winter
visitor does not come to this Coast
by the southern routes he will not
return to the Atlantic States by the
northern. Eau Franciscans are thus
ostentatiously adopting the suicidal
policy Of trying to kill the goose that
laid the golden egg. There can be
no question but that exaggerated re-
ports Of the prevalence of smallpox
in Southern California, and notably
IN Los Angeles, were spread broad
east in Chicago and New York by
emissaries who we're supposed to be
wor king in the interest of San Fran
cisco. That these people we're really
injuring that and all other northern
points We think we have conclusively
ohoWn.
AZ to the class OF people to whom
Hr. D. B. jackson belongs, they will
probably learn better sense as they
urow older. II not, it is to be hoped
16at the fool-killer will be along in
hort order and cook their mutton.
by como to Los Angeles, loaf
rund the hotels for a few hours,
part with the comforting con-
p that they know it all. and that
IN VII die with them. They in
NY know nothing Of ths country,
tlceo Traction d which hes been
lt6d - u;olr ptFblind vi6i6n.
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